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  • SO THIRSTY
    SO THIRSTY
    RACHEL HARRISON
    "Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn't need a reminder she's getting older, or that she's feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway--not with him, but with Sloane's longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of ...
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  • EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
    EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
    HEATHER FAWCETT
    The third instalment in the enchanting light academia Emily Wilde books, about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves, from Sunday Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett.[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    DOUGLAS ADAMS
    Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. ...
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  • A SMALL PERSON FAR AWAY (HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN'S CLASSICS)
    A SMALL PERSON FAR AWAY (HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN'S CLASSICS)
    JUDITH KERR
    Partly autobiographical, this is the third title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past... Berlin is where Anna lived before Hitler, when she was still a German child; before she spoke a word of English, before her family had all b...
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  • BEASTS OF WAR
    BEASTS OF WAR
    AYANA GRAY
    The epic final adventure in the New York Times bestselling BEASTS OF PREY trilogy, for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES. Koffi, once a servant to the god of death, is now free, but her former captor will stop at nothing to hunt her down and use her power to destroy the mortal world. Koffi knows when Fedu will strike- during the Bonding, a once...
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  • CAMEL CRAZY
    CAMEL CRAZY
    CHRISTINA ADAMS
    In this page-turning odyssey, a mother on a mission travels the globe -- from Bedouin camps in the Middle East to Amish farms in Pennsylvania to camel-herder villages in India -- to obtain camel milk, which dramatically helps her son's autism symptoms. Chronicling bureaucratic roadblocks, adventure-filled detours, and Christina Adams's love-fueled determination, Camel Crazy exp...
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  • GREYBEARD
    GREYBEARD
    BRIAN WILSON ALDISS
    A haunting picture of an Earth where humanity has become sterile (because of radiation from atomic testing in space) and an increasingly decrepit ageing population lives out its days amidst a burgeoning nature reclaiming the crumbling towns and villages in a riot of vegetation and new animal life. ...
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  • MILK AND HONEY
    MILK AND HONEY
    RUPI KAUR
    "Rupi Kaur is the Writer of the Decade." - The New Republic #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and hon...
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  • MINOR DETAIL
    MINOR DETAIL
    ADANIA SHIBLI
    Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman i...
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  • THE ROAD TO OXIANA
    THE ROAD TO OXIANA
    ROBERT BYRON
    Discover the ultimate in classic 1930s travel writing. 'A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since' William Dalrymple In 1933, the delightfully eccentric, Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Tehran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, t...
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  • SAHA
    SAHA
    CHO NAM-JOO
    From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.' i newspaper 'Like Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in Sout...
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  • THE 130-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    THE 130-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    ANDY GRIFFITHS
    There are lots of laughs at every level in 'The 130-Storey Treehouse', the tenth book in this series from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. This is our treehouse, come on up! We've added 13 news levels to our treehouse, including a soap bubble blaster, a Grabinator (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time), a time-wasting level, a toilet paper factory (because you can nev...
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  • THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
    JAMES MCBRIDE
    In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by...
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  • BERTRAND RUSSELL'S BEST
    BERTRAND RUSSELL'S BEST
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to a myriad of different issues and subjects, his prolific works also exhibited great intellectual wit and humour. Bertrand Russell’s Bestis a collection of Russell’s wittiest and most pungent writings. First published in 1958, t...
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  • THE HOUSEMAID IS WATCHING
    THE HOUSEMAID IS WATCHING
    FREIDA MCFADDEN
    A twisting, pulse-pounding thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker "You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back- but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We ...
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  • DAVID VS GOLIATH CHESS
    DAVID VS GOLIATH CHESS
    ANDREW SOLTIS
    Strategies and examples for beating a superior opponent in chess. Chess history is littered with David vs Goliath chess struggles where the weaker player has prevailed. Chess masters, even international grandmasters, can be defeated by young, improving players who use the right techniques and proper attitude. In David vs Goliath Chess, renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis takes ...
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  • PEW
    PEW
    CATHERINE LACEY
    One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call this amnesiac 'Pew' and seek to uncover who they are: their age; their gender, their race, their intentions. Are they an orphan, or something worse? What terrible trouble is Pew running from? And why won't they speak? Unable to agree on how to treat a p...
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  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
    NIGEL WARBURTON
    A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy to enter into. . . . A wonderful introduction for anyone who's ever felt curious about almost anything."--Sarah Bakewell, author of How To Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty...
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  • THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS
    THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS
    GARETH BROWN
    Get ready to be spellbound by the new, fantastical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of fantasy sensation The Book of Doors. The world of unknowable objects - magical items that most people have no idea possess powers - has been quiet for decades . . . But three current members of a secret society have remained watchful, meeting every six months in the basement o...
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  • ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
    ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS
    RAINBOW ROWELL
    New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. Now, Simon and Baz and P...
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  • BERTA ISLA
    BERTA ISLA
    JAVIER MARÍAS
    'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta I...
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  • AUDRE AND BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS
    AUDRE AND BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS
    TIA WILLIAMS
    'First love at its finest' JASMINE GUILLORY 'Five stars for Audre & Bash are Just Friends' MEG CABOT MEET AUDRE. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a good time. MEET BASH. Mysterious new senior. Everybody's crush. Tall, floppy, great taste in jewellery. King of having a good time. It's the last day of school at C...
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  • DEVILS
    DEVILS
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
    Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young rad...
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  • THE GREAT WAVE
    THE GREAT WAVE
    MICHIKO KAKUTANI
    An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth 'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai Weiwei In the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certain...
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  • WAR
    WAR
    BOB WOODWARD
    Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency. War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with ...
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  • SELECTED POEMS
    SELECTED POEMS
    FRANK O'HARA
    Frank O'Hara (1926-66) is among the most delightful and radical poets of the twentieth century. He is celebrated for his apparently unpremeditated poems, autobiographical and immediate ('any time, any place'). This is not the whole O'Hara: he may have scribbled poems on serviettes, but others he worked on with intense concentration, creating sequences that are inexhaustibly nua...
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  • HOME FRONT
    HOME FRONT
    KRISTIN HANNAH
    From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes Kristin Hannah's provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness - and the elusive nature of love. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war. From a distance, Michael and Jolen Zarkades ...
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  • SMALL BEAUTY
    SMALL BEAUTY
    JIA QING WILSON-YANG
    Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. SMALL BEAUTY tells the story of Mei, a mixed race trans woman managing the death of her cousin, the ways she contorts to navigate racism and transphobia, and her desire for community as she takes an opportunity to leave the city and revisit a town from her family's past, where she discovers queer family ...
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  • CHARLES DICKENS
    CHARLES DICKENS
    JENNY HARTLEY
    Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have suchvitality that they have leapt from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Ar...
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  • THE EYES OF GAZA
    THE EYES OF GAZA
    PLESTIA ALAQAD
    In early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate with dreams of becoming a successful journalist. By the end of November, she would be internationally known as the 'Eyes of Gaza'. Millions of people would be profoundly moved by her social media posts depicting daily life in Gaza amid Israel's deadly invasion and bombardment. Written as a series of diary ...
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